Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel-helmeted Egyptian police went to meet them. A hail of stones swept the British Consulate, poured into the ranks of the advancing police armed with shields and riot guns. The students took up fence-palings and clubs. The police fired over the students' heads, then into the mob, wounded...
Henry van Dyke was born in 1852 in Germantown, Pa., son of an old, conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels...
...posted some 2,000 Japanese bluejackets with fixed bayonets "defending the scene of the crime" and blustered at the Mayor of Greater Shanghai, Quaking General Wu Teh-chen, who officially promised four times in succession: "I will do everything in my power!" Fresh woe for Wu developed when a mob smashed the plate-glass window of one of Shanghai's Japanese-owned stores. As panicky Chinese ran for the International Settlement an attache of Japan's Embassy declared, "We deplore this exodus. We have made no demands. We are gratified by the spontaneous co-operation of Mayor...
...lucky if his men Hole Harvard to 30 points, and he's right. Crimson team will give big Joslin to man mountain Mountain, the Green Mountain Mountain who plays at tackle. Mountain won't be a Mountain to much when Burton starts to Burton his lip, and Mitchener's Mob from the Blackwoods will fall rapidly. Sage is goddam tired of this punny business. How he wishes he were back in his own China again, flinging Huey to his little friends in peace and quiet. Thank God only one victory to predict after this one. Today will be Harvard...
...Deal." Pretending that they were unmoved by the winging of Wang, the Nanking Government & satraps kept on with the motions of getting ready for the Kuomintang Congress last week. In 1931, they recalled, a Nanking mob with unbridled patriotism actually sacked the Chinese Foreign Office (TIME, Oct. 5, 1931) because the Government seemed pro-Japanese even then. Ever since it has seemed progressively more pro-Japanese...